GUINEA: Willing to Take Dollars

The black leaders of Africa's emerging new nations endlessly complain
that the outside world too often judges whose side they are on in the
East-West struggle by whose aid they accept. Guinea's Red-leaning
President Sékou Touré loudly proclaims that he is on no side,
stubbornly insists he signed up for aid from Russia ($35 million) and
Red China ($25 million) and brought in scores of Communist
technicians, simply because he needed the money and expert advice.

Certainly Touré needed help from somewhere; for when Guinea voted
itself out of the French community, France...